Drowning A Fish

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Drowning a Fish
Why can’t blondes be pharmacists? Because they can’t figure out how to fit the bottle in the typewriter. An example of one of the cleaner blonde jokes. I heard my first blonde joke at the age of 5. We were in Arizona for a hockey tournament, sitting around the pool, when the boys starting telling jokes that I’m sure they must have heard from older brothers or sisters. I am a blonde, but being that young I had no idea what anyone was talking about. The stereotype that blondes are not very intelligent is shown in Hollywood but is also proven to be wrong in movies and in children’s toys.
First of all, there are certain people that do fit into the dumb blonde category. For example, the singer Jessica Simpson. Currently she and her husband have a reality show on MTV called The Newlyweds. She was eating a can of Chicken of the Sea tuna, when she asked her husband, “Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish?” These are the types of questions that many people would ask, but not necessarily at the age of 23. Jessica’s dad just recently said, “What’s happening here is Jessica knows she’s on camera, since was a little girl, people have been calling her a dumb blonde, (so) she begins to assume the role that everybody expects of her. That doesn’t mean that’s who she is. It’s a part of her personality, but it’s one that she’s enhancing on the show. It’s nothing that’s not real, but she unintentionally exaggerates.” Now whenever someone says something stupid it is referred to as “pulling a Jessica.” While Jessica was at an amusement park, she won a platypus stuffed animal. She commented, ”Isn’t it plata-ma-pus? I always thought it was plata-ma-pus.” Also, when she was talking to a close friend about how old she was and having another birthday, she said, “No, 23 is old. It’s almost 25, which is, like, almost mid-twenties.” Well, if 25 is not the number exact...